One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William E. Gladstone

Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara De Angelis

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis (This is one of my favorite love quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!)

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent van Gogh

Uplifting And Beautiful Love Quotes

Just in case you have forgotten today: You matter. You are loved. You are worthy. You are magical.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Sir Arthur Pinero

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much. W. H. Murray

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. Hermann Hesse

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Karl Menninger

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Kahlil Gibran

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. Gary Zukav

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde

The minute I heard my first love story – I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along. Rumi

Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better. Robert Frost

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each others dreams, we can be together all the time. Hobbes

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat. Molly Haskell

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Rumi

Inspirational And Deep Love Quotes

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Washington Thurman

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn’t sentimental. It doesn’t have to be pretty, yet it doesn’t deny pain. Sharon Salzberg

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara De Angelis

That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love. Emily Dickinson

There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. Lorraine Hansberry

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. George MacDonald

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. ‘Deserves’ is not the point. And ‘owes’ is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is – in the right hands, everything that you give, you get. Amy Bloom

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. Marc Estrin

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. ‘Light! Give me light!’ was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. Helen Keller

The best love affairs are those we never had. Norman Lindsay

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Jessamyn West

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. Saint Francis de Sales

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious. Marcel Proust

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love. Rumi

I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them. Anais Nin

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever. Noah from The Notebook

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone. J.R.R. Tolkien

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. Angelita Lim

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Oscar Wilde

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. Roy Croft

There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless. Leo Christopher

Part 3. Love Quotes About…

Love Quotes About Life And Happiness

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers

When all your desires are distilled, you will cast just two votes: To love more, and be happy. Hafiz of Persia

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. Mary S. Calderone

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough. Ann Landers

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. Tom Head

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. Lydia Maria Child

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. Audre Lorde

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, ‘What are you going through?’ Simone Weil

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. William Wordsworth

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. Oscar Wilde

Quotes About Love And Friendship

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. Thomas Merton

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. Jane Austen

Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain. Sharon Salzberg

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. Mitsugi Saotome

Tell me who admires and loves you. And I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl S. Buck

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel

You like to respect and admire someone whom you love, but actually, you love even more the people who require understanding and who make mistakes and have to grow with their mistakes. Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable. David Augsburger

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. Margaret Guenther

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. Robin Morgan

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves. Elizabeth Gilbert

We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones. Hafiz of Persia

Quotes About Self-Love

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. Mahatma Gandhi

She remembered who she was and the game changed. Lalah Deliah

The greatest single cause of a poor self image is the absence of unconditional love. Zig Ziglar

The nice thing about self-love is that it’s hardly ever unrequited. Solomon Short

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. Isha McKenzie-Mavinga

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. Iyanla Vanzant

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. Barbara De Angelis

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself. William Sloane Coffin

Self love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you now how to love yourself.

And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears. Mark Anthony

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Marianne Williamson

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball

Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small. Tara Brach

Self-care is never a selfish act — it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Parker Palmer

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. M. Scott Peck

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Brene Brown

Quotes About Love, Sadness And Anger

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. George Santayana

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. C. S. Lewis

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn

You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like ‘maybe we should just be friends’ or ‘how very perceptive’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. Neil Gaiman

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Barbara De Angelis

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than if hatred had not preceded it. Baruch Spinoza

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung

Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… Neil Gaiman

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. Jane Austen

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. Emma Goldman

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it. Joan D. Vinge

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anais Nin

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. James Baldwin

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. Martin Luther King Jr.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandela

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. Ellen Goodman

The sage said, ‘The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. Hazrat Inayat Khan

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. Judy Collins

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Louis B. Smedes

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. Steve Maraboli

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. Corrie ten Boom

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov

Quotes About Love And Time

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

See who is the most patient in love; he has the greatest advantage. Patience is surely a great virtue, for it vanquished, as these scholars say, things that rigor would never manage. One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not. For certainly there is no one in the world who doesn’t do or say something amiss. Anger, sickness, or planetary influences, wine, sorrow, or changing of disposition often causes one to do or speak amiss. One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. And therefore a wise man, in order to live in comfort, promises his lady forbearance, and she wisely gives her promise to him. Chaucer

Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. Mary Parrish

Quotes About Love And Distance

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits. Dee King

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Charles Dickens

My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning. Zelda Fitzgerald

While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart. Nicholas Sparks

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface. Truman Capote

All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. Jean Goss

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around. Harold Kushner

Love Quotes From The Bible

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. I Corinthians 13:4-8

For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her. Ephesians 5:25

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Proverbs 3:3-4

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Peter 4:8

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. John 15:12

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Corinthians 13:13

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Romans 12:10

Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Luke 6:35

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Romans 12:9

‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 12:31

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. Han Suyin

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. Nathaniel Hawthorne

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Barbara De Angelis

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. Robert Sexton

Love is the only bow on life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of the wondrous flower – the heart and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven and we are gods. Robert G. Ingersoll

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. Reinhold Niebuhr

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. Amy Tan

Love is the virtue of the heart, sincerity is the virtue of the mind, decision is the virtue of the will, xourage is the virtue of the spirit. Frank Lloyd Wright

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Francis of Assisi

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love. Robert Tizon

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Tennyson

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. Haruki Murakami

What Is Love Exactly? 50 Quotes That Reveal It

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith

Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton

Love is boundary-less. Angel Haze

True love is knowing a person’s faults, and loving them even more for them.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. Anthony Trollope

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Alphonse Karr

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes

#10 Love is…

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Augustine of Hippo

Love is ever new because it never groweth old. Augustine of Hippo

Love is the beauty of the soul. Augustine of Hippo

Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear. Axl Rose

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Bertrand Russell

Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile. Carrie Ann Inaba

Love is the cheapest of religions. Cesare Pavese

Love is sacrifice. David Oyelowo

Love is the reason you were born. Dorothy Fields

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides

#20 Love is…

Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits. Frederick William Robertson

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being ‘drawn toward.’ Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one’s friends and enemies. Carter Heyward

Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. Madame de Stael

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes. George MacDonald

Love is three quarters curiosity. Giacomo Casanova

Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire. Molleen Matsumura

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken

#30 Love is…

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. James Thurber

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh

Love is love’s reward. John Dryden

Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell

Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. Michael Novak

Love is a deep desire to bless the whole existence. Osho

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. Mark Twain

#40 Love is…

Love is more than just a feeling: it’s a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, ‘I understand’ than to hear, ‘You’re right.’ Molleen Matsumura

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears. Ovid

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

Part 5. Quotes From The Most Loving And Peaceful People In History

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall – think of it, always. Mahatma Gandhi

Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. Dalai Lama

When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously. Dalai Lama

The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Dalai Lama

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. Dalai Lama

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. Dalai Lama

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. Dalai Lama

John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. John Lennon

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. John Lennon

Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes. John Lennon

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. John Lennon